10 Awesome Pools in the world..

Here is the Oobject alternative list of cool pools. Including pools over fake pools, pools hanging off the edge of buildings, 1000 year old pools and spectacular underground pools. Here we go!

Gellért Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool
Budapests Gellert geo thermal baths are the closest thing to how i imagine an Imperial Roman bath to have looked

Gellért Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool, also called Gellért fürdő or Gellért Baths, is one of the most beautiful and elegant baths in Budapest, built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. They were damaged during World War II, but then rebuilt. References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were also built on this particular site.

Site: http://www.gellertbath.com/
Inverse pool

A couple of interesting items over at Elmanco. Above, a photo created by Sanaa of what appears to be a family underwater in a swimming pool. But the water is not in the pool, it is on top, on the glass lid.
Worlds deepest recreational pool
The pool at the Nemo 33 recreational diving center in Belgium, is over 100 ft deep, making in the worlds deepest recreational pool.
Bali Four Seasons pool
More of a pond than a pool, this photo shows it side on. As a piece of architectural narrative, the Bali Four Seasons pool entry is exceptional. A wooden bridge takes you over a chasm to an infinity pool with the jungle wrapping around the background, the pool floating 50 feet above it.The entrance to the hotel is through a slit in the pool to the lobby underneath and is worth of a James Bond movie set.
glass swimming pool
This is a classic case of an ambitious architectural gesture with utterly pedestrian execution. a glass swimming pool over an entrance is a spectacular thing, unfortunately the surrounding structure looks like a freeway overpass.
Angkor Wat 1000 year old pool

Few places are as exotic and mysterious as Cambodias Angkor Wat. Show here is the central pool.
The Glass Pool Inn

A lovely quirky Vegas landmark that was recently demolished. The glass pool in had portals that could be seen from the road.

A South Strip landmark for years, the Glass Pool Inn hosted scores of television and film crews. Its above-ground pool was meant to function as a sort of billboard, to beckon travelers from the highway. It was recently torn down to build some other “themed” piece of shit.
Rooftop pool by OMA

Keywords: Villa dall’Ava, Saint-Cloud, glass house, swimmingpool, hoveringThe client wanted a glass house with a swimming pool on the roof and two separate “apartments” - one for the parents, the other for the daughter. They also wanted a panoramic view - from their swimming pool - of the surrounding landscape and the city of Paris. The house is conceived as a glass pavilion containing living and dining areas, with two hovering, perpendicular apartments shifted in opposite directions to exploit the view. They are joined by the swimming pool which rests on the concrete structure encased by the glass pavilion.
Rooftop pool New York
You can order prints of this great picture of 4 boys from the Madison Square Boys Club, form the National Archives. They are in a rowing boat on the roof of a flooded building in what looks like Queens, but could possibly be the North End of Brooklyn.
Anyway this flooded rooftop counts as a cool pool, in our opinion.
SPG Building
1530 Main Street, formerly the Dallas National Bank Building, and known later as the SPG Building, is an historic high-rise located on Main Street between Akard Street and Ervay Street. Positioned at the end of Stone Street Plaza, it is centralized in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas, and is the only Gothic high-rise in the city. The Dallas National Bank completed construction of the office building in 1927.
The building is currently being converted into a five-star, 129-room boutique hotel by Headington Hotels and will be known as the Joule Hotel (until early 2008 the hotel was reported to be named the Hotel Elan). It has garnered notoriety for its 10th floor pool that cantilevers eight feet over the easement below. The hotel interior was developed by world renowned designer, Adam Tihany, and the lobby level is home to the highly acclaimed Charlie Palmer restaurant.

Street view: maps.google.com/maps?q=1530+Main+St,+Dallas,+ TX+75201,+US…